A total of 34 active and retired basketball players -- including women's stars Cheryl Miller and Tina Thompson – are signed up to compete in the "Obama Classic." Filmmaker and diehard Knicks fan Spike Lee will serve as guest coach.

The Obama campaign is hoping the event brings in big bucks.

An invitation went out to supporters on Wednesday offering an "MVP" package that costs $35,800 a pop. For that low, low price, donors get to shoot around with the players beforehand, eat dinner with them afterward and watch the game courtside.

A $20,000 "Patron" package gets the same perks with the exception of dinner. For $5,000, donors get courtside seats but aren't allowed to dunk on Patrick Ewing in the pre-game shoot-around.

"Please feel free to pass this invitation along to others whom you believe may be interested in joining us for a very fun, once-in-a-lifetime and unforgettable experience in support of President Obama!" writes Shefali Razdan Duggal, national finance chairman for the president's reelection campaign, in the invitation.

Responded Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer: "We need less of a focus on his job and more focus on getting the millions of Americans who can't even make $38,500 some help."

HARRISBURG — The State Supreme Court has rejected Attorney General Kathleen Kane's attempt to throw out a grand jury investigation into whether she or someone in her office leaked investigative secrets to a newspaper to discredit critics.

Convicted streetlight scammers Patrick J. McLaine and Robert J. Kearns must face charges in Bucks County alleging they took money from Richland Township without following through on a contract to purchase and maintain its light poles.

Catasauqua police officer Scott M. Rothrock had already been stabbed once in the chest with a 13-inch butcher knife and was trying to block more thrusts as he lay on his back in a snow bank Feb. 23 in east Allentown.